Life Skills for a Healthy Life Health – Unit 1

A tool for building a healthy life. Life Skill A tool for building a healthy life.

What Are Life Skills? Everyone wants to enjoy the benefits of a healthy life. A healthy life doesn’t come without effort. Life skills are tools for building a healthy life. Life skills help improve the six components of health: physical, emotional, social, mental, spiritual, and environmental. Learning to use life skills boosts your wellness throughout your lifetime.

Ten Life Skills Assessing Your Health Communicating Effectively Practicing Wellness Coping Being a Wise Consumer Evaluating Media Messages Using Community Resources Making GREAT Decisions Using Refusal Skills Setting Goals

Assessing Your Health How healthy are you? How do you know if you are doing the right thing for your health? Evaluate Your Health How your actions and behaviors affect your health What can you do to improve your health?

Communicating Effectively Have you ever had trouble dealing with a classmate or your parents? Struggled for the right word to say how you feel? Communication skills include: Knowing how to listen Speaking effectively Helps improve your relationships with your family, friends, classmates, teachers and other adults.

Practicing Wellness Practice healthy behaviors daily. Examples: Getting enough sleep Choosing nutritious foods Avoiding risky behaviors

Coping Dealing with troubles or problems in an effective way will help you deal with difficult times, situations, and emotions such as: Anger Depression Loss of a loved one

Being a Wise Consumer A consumer is a person, product, or service. Make good decisions when buying health products and services.

Evaluating Media Messages Public forms of communication such as TV, radio, movies, newspaper, the internet, and advertisements are referred to as the media. The media has a significant influence on what you learn about the world. Knowing how to analyze media messages will help you make better decisions about your health.

Using Community Resources A resource is something that you can use to help achieve a goal. Examples: Health clinics Libraries Government agencies

Making Great Decisions Everyone wants to make the right decisions. If you don’t know what the right decision is consult community resources. They can help provide you with steps to help you make the right decisions.

Using Refusal Skills This life skill will provide you with different ways you can say “no” to something you do not want to do.

Setting Goals This life skill will provide you with tips to help you reach your goals.